Archive for October, 2008

Oct 31 2008

Voodoo and the art of getting your child to sleep

Published by Ron Mertens under Personal

After having a frustrating week in which Abigail woke up every 1 or 2 hours, I have to say that it got quite funny. We tried to see what will get her to sleep… and you seem to check all those weird and silly things. If we put her to sleep on her right side, [...]

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Oct 31 2008

Goleango

Published by Ron Mertens under Web Sites

I just found out about a great hebrew site – Goleango.com – it’s packed with useful calculators and informations in a range of topics from health to mortgage. Check it out!

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Oct 26 2008

Interesting Chinese SPAM?

Published by Ron Mertens under Web Sites

Here’s an interesting SPAM scheme for you… I got a letter from china – someone who’s claiming to be the department of registration service. He said that a certain company is trying to get the Metalgrass.cn domain. The registration service have checked and saw the Metalgrass is a “brand name of Metalgrass Software”, and thus [...]

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Oct 09 2008

TV can hurt your child’s development…

Published by Ron Mertens under Personal

An interesting link from the Klalit Health-Services (hebrew) – that goes against TV for kids (or adults). Interesting read, especially when you consider it’s coming from a Health-Service.
They actually say that kids (up to 6) watch 60 hours of TV a week, and 45 hours. I didn’t believe that (it’s 8 hours a day!). So [...]

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